CURRICULUM VITAE - M. NOURBESE PHILIP EDUCATION 1970-73 LL. B. - University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 1968-70 M.A., Political Science - University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 1965-68 B. Sc., Economics - University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica TRAINING – PERFORMANCE ARTS 2016-present Butoh, Fujirawa Dance Inventions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2015 Open Program, Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski & Thomas Richards, New York, New York, USA 2015 Claim Your Voice Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014 Open Program, Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski & Thomas Richards, Pontedera, Italy 2011 La MaMa Umbria International, intensive performance arts workshop, Umbria, Italy 2006 African Arts and Practices, (Sumer course) University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana WORK EXPERIENCE 2015 Residency, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA 2014 Summer Faculty, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, USA 2013 Writer-in-Residence, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 2013 Summer Faculty, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, USA 2012 Playwright-in-Residence, b current, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2010 Playwright-in-Residence, urban ink, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2010 Writer-in-Residence, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad &Tobago 2009 Writer-in-Residence, University of Ghana, Legon Boundary, Accra, Ghana 2008-09 Writer-in-Residence, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2003 Writer-in-Residence, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 2001 Writer-in-Residence, Toronto Women’s Bookstore, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2000 Creative Writing Workshop - Poetry, Art Starts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2000 Workshop, Cultural Studies, Toronto Women’s Book Store, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1992-97 Lecturer, University of Toronto, Women’s Studies Department, New College (Courses: Cultural Studies and Writing by Black Women), Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1993-94 Lecturer, Ontario College of Art, Toronto (Course: Cultural Studies), Toronto, Canada 1989-91 Course Director/Lecturer, Creative Fiction, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1981-88 Editor, Writer, Indexer, Carswell Publishing, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1980-82 Sole Practitioner, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1975-80 Partner, Jemmot and Philip, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1975 Staff Lawyer, Parkdale Community Legal Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1 CURRICULUM VITAE - M. NOURBESE PHILIP PUBLICATIONS – BOOKS 2020 Zong!, Silver Press, London, UK (poetry) 2018 Looking For Livingstone:An Odyssey of Silence, Documents, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (poetry/fiction) 2017 Bla_K, bookthug, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2015 She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut, USA (poetry) 2008 Zong!, Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut, USA (poetry) 2006 She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, Poui Publications, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (poetry) 2001 Coups and Calypsos, Mercury Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (drama) 1999 Coups and Calypsos (copyscript), Playwrights Union of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (drama) 1997 A Genealogy of Resistance, The Mercury Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (collected essays) 1996 Caribana: African Roots and Continuities -Race, Space and the Poetics of Moving, Poui Publications, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (chapbook) 1994 Grammar of Dissent: Poetry and Prose by Claire Harris, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, edit. Carol Morrell, Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 1994 Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel, Poui Publications, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (essays) includes The Redemption of Al Bumen (drama) 1993 She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, The Women's Press, London, Ontario, Canada (poetry) 1993 Frontiers: Essays & Writings in Racism and Culture, The Mercury Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (collected essays) 1991 Looking For Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, The Mercury Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (poetry/fiction) 1988 She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, Ragweed Press, Charlottetown Prince Edward Island, Canada (poetry) 1988 She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba (poetry) 1988 Harriet's Daughter, Heinemann Inc. London, UK / The Women's Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (novel) 1983 Salmon Courage, Williams-Wallace, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (poetry) 1980 Thorns, Williams-Wallace, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (poetry) PUBLICATIONS – TRANSLATED BOOKS 2008 She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, (Spanish-English bilingual edition CEDMA, Malaga, Malaga, Spain (poetry) 2003 Coups and Calypsos (excerpts), Conjunto: Revista de teatro latinoamericano, Casa de las Americas 130, Oct.-Dec. 2003. Havana, Cuba 1993 Harriet: und schwarz wie ich, Anrich Verlag GmbH, Kevelaer, Germany (novel) 2 CURRICULUM VITAE - M. NOURBESE PHILIP PUBLICATIONS - ANTHOLOGIES: POETRY 2014 Best American Experimental Writing 2014, ed. Cole Swensen, Omnidawn Publishing, Richmond, Virginia, USA 2012 Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century, five poems and an essay, eds. Claudia Rankine, and Lisa Sewell, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, Mid- dletown, Connecticut, USA 2012 I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, Zong! Excerpt, ed. Bergvall, Browne, Carmody and Place, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles, California, USA 2007 Rotten English, ed. Dora Ahmad, WW Norton & Co., New York, New York, USA 2006 Revival - An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing, four poems, ed. Donna Bailey Nurse, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2000 “Discourse on the Logic of Language”, Introduction to Literature, Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PUBLICATIONS - ANTHOLOGIES: FICTION 2009 “Orosan,” The Belladonna Elders Series #6, Belladonna, New York, New York, USA 2006 “Stop Frame,” Stories from Blue Latitudes, Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad, eds. Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow, Seal Press, Emeryville, Cali- fornia, USA 2000 "Burn Sugar," Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English, ed. Rosemary Sullivan, Oxford University Press, USA 1997 "Whose Idea Was it Anyway?," The Word Behind Bars and the Paradox of Exile, ed. Kofi Anyidoho, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, USA 1997 "Commitment to Hardness" (from unpublished ms., The Imagination of Their Hearts), Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African Canadian Literature, ed. George Elliott Clarke, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1995 "Bad Words," This Ain’t No Healing Town: Toronto Stories, ed. Barray Calahagn, Exile Editions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PUBLICATIONS - ANTHOLOGIES: DRAMA 2004 Cut Me, She Speaks: Monologues for Women, ed. Judith Thompson, Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2000 Coups and Calypsos, Contemporary African Canadian Drama Volume 1: Testifyin', ed. Djanet Sears, Playwrights Canada Press,Toronto, Ontario, Canada (drama) 1996 Coups and Calypsos (excerpts), Beyond the Pale, eds. Yvette Nolan, Betty Quan, and George Seremba, Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PUBLICATIONS - ANTHOLOGIES: NON-FICTION 2019 “Making Black Cake in Combustible Spaces”, 21/19 Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth Century Archive, ed. Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis, Milkweed Edi- tions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA New York, USA Press, 3 CURRICULUM VITAE - M. NOURBESE PHILIP 2019 “Haven’t Seen You in a Minute” conversation with Meg Onli, Colored People Time, ed. Meg Onli and Amber Rose Johnson, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 2018 “The Ga(s)p”, Poetics and Precarity, ed. Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller, SUNY Press, Albany, New York, USA 2018 “The Declension of History in the key of if”, Letters to the Future: Black Women /Radical Writing, ed. Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin, Kore Press, Tucson, Arizona, USA 2017 “A Counting”, Women, Poetry, Migration (an Anthology), ed. Jane Joriitz-Nakagawa, theenk books, Palmyra, New York, USA 2007 “The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy,” Rotten English, ed. Dora Ahmad, WW Norton & Co., New York, New York, USA 2006 Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists, ed. Nigel Thomas, TSAR Publications, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Poetry, essays, short fiction have been published in numerous anthologies and maga- zines. These, including many earlier anthologies, can be seen at nourbese.com POETRY READINGS /PERFORMANCES (since2012) Zong! Annual Durational Collective Reading/Performance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2021(upcoming) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, German 2020 (upcoming) Plug In ICA, public, collective reading, organized by curator Nasrin Himada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2020 (upcoming) Poetry Project, New York, New York, USA 2020 (upcoming) Vocarium Reading Series, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2020 (Re)Centering Wounds, reading & lecture, Scripps College, Claremont, USA 2019 Archival Lives, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2019 Turning Towards a Radical Listening Poet, The Kitchen, New York, New York, USA 2019 Sham-e She’r, Reading Series, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2019 Black Poetics Conference, Princeton University, New Jersey, New York, USA 2019 Trent University, Durham, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada 2019 Talking Code, Stalking Silence, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA 2018 Zong! Mapping Ancestral Codes: Now then ever, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2018 West Indian Literature Conference,